Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where a regimental commander is said to have told him: "Your Royal Highness...
...better times. Local Communist Boss Fabio Alimonti went to Rome. Dressed in his best shiny black suit, he faced Rome's prefect. Said he: "You take our water for your benefit and spill what you don't need. The people of Arsoli cannot be left to die. Find a pump to bring life back to our hills...
...doom plainly forecast in the first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite...
...girl in the hospital, never letting on, of course, that he was the driver. The girl, too, is pretending; she doesn't really feel sick at all. But Dane learns from the doctors that he has given her an inoperable whatsis, of which she is bound to die-suddenly and soon. Needless to say, the doctors do not let her know. Neither does Dane. Neither does the gumshoe (Wallace Ford) who orders Dane, on pain of imprisonment, to make her happy while she lasts. Dane wants to do that anyhow; in no time at all now, they are going...
...newspapers played the story for all it was worth, and then some. They bickered over whether Ruth really knew that he had cancer of the throat, or had merely known -since the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered July 21-that he was bound to die; they told conflicting stories about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled...